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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of HTML editors.

Please see the individual products' articles for further information, and comparison of text editors for information on text editors, and comparison of word processors or information on word processors, many of which have features to assist with writing HTML.

General information

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Editor Version Year Creator Software license Website
Aptana Studio 3.6.0 (August 1) 2014 Aptana GPL [2]
Bluefish 2.2.9 (June 16) 2016 Bluefish GPL [3]
BlueGriffon 1.8 (October 13) 2015 Disruptive Innovations MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 [4] [5]
Brackets Release 1.5 (October 10) 2015 Adobe MIT License [6]
LibreOffice 5.0.4 (December) 2015 The Document Foundation Mozilla Public License/Apache License 2.0/others [7]
Maqetta Preview 5 (March 28) 2012 IBM BSD or AFL [8]
openElement 1.44 (January 21) 2014 openElement Apache License 2.0 [9]
OpenOffice.org 4.1.1 (August) 2014 Oracle Corporation (formerly Sun Microsystems) Mozilla Public License/Apache License 2.0/others [10]
TextMate 2.0 Preview (August 12) 2012 Macromates GPL [11]
Editor Version Year Creator Software license Website

Operating system support

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Editor Windows OS X Linux BSD Unix iOS Android
Aptana Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
BlueGriffon Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Brackets Yes Yes Yes No No No No
LibreOffice Yes Yes Yes source only source only No No
Maqetta Yes Yes Cloud[1] Cloud[1] No No No
openElement Yes No No No No No No
OpenOffice.org Yes Yes Yes source only source only No No
Editor Windows OS X Linux BSD Unix iOS Android

Editor features

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Editor WYSIWYG FTP Upload WebDAV Upload Server-side scripting Shared editing Spell checking Templates Templates Update Sync Page Preview Form Handler
Aptana No Yes ? Yes (via plugins) Yes No Some (i.e. Snippets) ? Yes ?
Bluefish No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
BlueGriffon Yes No
(add-on)[2] 		No ? No Yes Yes
(via commercial proprietary add-on)[3] 		No Yes ?
Brackets "Live Preview" in-browser Yes (via extension) No Yes No Yes (via extension) Yes (via extension) No Yes ?
LibreOffice Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ?
Maqetta Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ?
openElement Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes ? Yes Yes
OpenOffice.org Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ?
Editor WYSIWYG FTP Upload WebDAV Upload Server-side scripting Shared editing Spell checking Templates Templates Update Sync Page Preview Form Handler

Web technology support

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Editor CSS2 Frames Java JavaScript XSLT XHTML MathML XForms RSS Atom XPath
Aptana Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BlueGriffon Yes
(via commercial proprietary add-on)[4] 		? ? ? ? Yes Yes
(via commercial proprietary add-on)[5] 		? ? ? ?
Brackets Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? Yes Yes ?
LibreOffice Yes Yes Yes (optional) Yes (and Python) Yes (that's how export works) Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
Maqetta Yes ? No Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
openElement Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes No No
OpenOffice.org Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
Editor CSS2 Frames Java JavaScript XSLT XHTML  MathML XForms RSS Atom XPath

HTML/XHTML specification support

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Specification HTML 3.2 HTML 4.01 HTML 5 XHTML 1.0 XHTML 1.1 Validating
Variant strict trans. f.set strict trans. f.set
Aptana ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[6]
BlueGriffon No Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?
Brackets ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
LibreOffice ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ?
Maqetta ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ?
openElement ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? Yes
OpenOffice.org ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ?
Variant strict trans. f.set strict trans. f.set
Specification HTML 3.2 HTML 4.01 HTML 5 XHTML 1.0 XHTML 1.1 Validating

Image format support

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Editor JPEG GIF PNG TIFF SVG
Aptana Yes Yes Yes Yes Depends
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BlueGriffon Yes Yes Yes ? Yes
Brackets Yes Yes Yes No Yes
(via extension)[7]
Maqetta ? ? ? ? ?
openElement Yes Yes Yes No No
OpenOffice.org Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Editor JPEG GIF PNG TIFF SVG

Early HTML comparisons

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The following is a comparison of early HTML editors.

Comparison of early HTML editors
Program Author Version System HTML
Compliant		 Display Forms Tables Integrated
Browser		 Cost
asWedit Andrzej Stochniol 1.1 Unix HTML 3 source Yes Yes No freeware
HoTMetaL SoftQuad 1.0+ Unix,Windows HTML 1 WYSIWYG Partial No No freeware
HoTMetaL pro SoftQuad 1 Unix, Windows, Macintosh HTML 2 WYSIWYG Yes Yes No commercial
Live Markup MediaTech 16b4a Windows HTML 2 WYSIWYG No No No commercial
Symposia GRIF 0.8 Unix HTML 2 WYSIWYG Yes Yes Yes beta
Tkhtml Liem Bahenmann 2.3 Unix No source Yes No No freeware
Phoenix University of Chicago 0.1.7 Unix No WYSIWYG No No Yes freeware
WebPages DART Software 1.7 NextStep HTML 1 WYSIWYG No No No commercial
WebMagic SiliconGraphics 1 Irix HTML 2 WYSIWYG No No No commercial
Webtor Jochen Schales .91prealpha2 Macintosh HTML2 WYSIWYG No No No freeware

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b [Google Chrome (current release), Mozilla Firefox 4 users can edit HTML if Maquetta is running in the cloud.]
  2. ^ Bluegriffon's FireFTP ads shortcut to FTP client
  3. ^ Bluegriffon's commercial proprietary One click templates add-on
  4. ^ http://www.bluegriffon.com/index.php?pages/CssEditor BlueGriffon's commercial proprietary CSS editor add-on
  5. ^ http://www.bluegriffon.com/index.php?pages/MathML BlueGriffon's commercial proprietary MathML add-on
  6. ^ External tools such as weblint and tidy are integrated
  7. ^ [1]

Mintert, Stefan (1995). "WWW-Dokumente komfortabel erstellen: Weberknechte" [Create WWW documents comfortably]. iX (in German). 8: 54–66.



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